Barry Hannah
Barry Hannah went to the college (I think he dropped out) where I received my undergrad degree, Mississippi College, a small Southern Baptist college in Clinton, MS. He satirized the school in his novel Geronimo Rex. For most of the literary types at MC who didn’t fall inline with the overly oppressive Southern Baptist strictures of the school, Hannah has been a hero of sorts. I know that he, along with Faulkner and Welty, influenced my path into English studies. I was sad to see this the other day:
AP Wire | 03/17/2005 | Author Barry Hannah hospitalized for undisclosed illness OXFORD, Miss. - Author and professor Barry Hannah is being treated for an undisclosed illness in an intensive care unit at a Texas hospital, his wife, Susan Hannah, said Thursday through a family spokesperson.
I met him once at a lecture / book-signing and I have a copy of the collection of essays he signed in storage with my parents in Mississippi. My thoughts are with him and his family.
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